Musing with Metis Strategy | 2

Recent Highlights in Business & Technology

Brandon Metzger
Metis Strategy
5 min readDec 18, 2015

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Musings with Metis Strategy is a collection of the best content at the intersection of business and technology that the Metis Strategy team found this week.

#ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE| by Steven Levy

Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return

FOR MORE INFO: Introducing OpenAI

#INNOVATION|by Peter Diamandis

The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea

#FINANCE | by Bill Maurer

Has money really changed from shells to digital apps? Underneath, money is always a token of our social relations

#ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | by Shivon Zilis

Overall, agents will become more eloquent, autonomous systems more pervasive, machine intelligence more…intelligent. I expect more magic in the years to come.

#SUSTAINABILITY |by Jeff Clarke

Companies need to take more leadership and ownership of their corporate sustainability practices — for the potential economic impact and the sake of increasing profits, not just to have a clean conscience.”

#ROBOTICS | by the Hax team

Hax’s report covers everything from what a robot is to the implications of them getting cheaper, smarter and more varied.

#MOBILE | by Ben Thompson

It turns out that “mobile” is not about devices, but rather, at a fundamental level, about computing anywhere; to differentiate between PCs or phones is an ultimately meaningless exercise.

#Profile | by Chris Heath

There’s certainly no moral issue if there’s no life...in fact, it would be, I think, sort of immoral not to [terraform Mars], if it meant preservation of life on Earth as we know it.

#MOBILE | by Sarah Guo

Messaging has the potential to be the command line for normal humans.

#PROGRESS | by: Angus Hervey

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

#BIOLOGY | by Jason Silva

A cell is a machine for turning experience into biology.

#MOBILE | by Brandon Metzger

In the next three to five years, tapping and swiping will give way to a far more familiar interface: conversation

#INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY | by Peter High

From an IT perspective, we had two main goals. One was structural, and the other was financial/economic.

#INFORMAITON TECHNOLOGY | by Peter High

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Brandon Metzger
Metis Strategy

Exploring the impact of emerging technologies on business, society and humanity | Associate at Metis Strategy. Formerly S&T researcher at The Millennium Project